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profpatricko · 5 months
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seiishindraws · 5 months
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Hello hello, I'm a big fan of your art. Um, I was wondering, if it's okay to ask, where do you look to for poses to use in your art? I struggle sometimes to come up with or find poses I like, and was wondering if there's any resources you use for that kind of thing? (Hopefully that all makes sense)
i feel like i differ from a lot of artists i know irl bc they all use pinterest to look for pose reference, i personally kinda just fiddle around until a pose looks nice and only seek out reference if im having trouble nailing down the pose im trying to draw
since getting back into art school, i do like 6 hours of life drawing every week and its done a lot to help me formulate poses in my head! cannot overstate how vital life drawing is if you wanna get better at depicting the human figure in various poses, you start to become so intimately familiar with how our bodies and bend and squash and fold in different positions
i feel like the only little tip i have here is, if you're drawing a pose and something about it feels off, consider "contrapposto", which is a term used to describe the balance of weight in a figure. usually one leg will be bearing a bit more weight than the other, and the hips and torso will never be completely parallel to each other. this image kinda showcases what im talking about.
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one side of the body will stretch while other squashes, and having a stretch and squash between the torso and hips usually makes for a more interesting pose, and creating an interesting rhythm between the head angle and the torso and hips can help make a pose more appealing. this is not a hard rule of course, just things that automatically run through my mind out of habit now.
here are some midna sketches i made the other day while procrastinating on assignments lol. i drew these poses without referece, they arent like super elaborate or anything but i feel like theyre pretty charming at least
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THIS ISNT A VERY GOOD EXPLANATION OF THIS CONCEPT IM SORRY but basically: draw from life, study the human figure an excessive amount and you will start to grasp things pretty well !!
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eucanthos · 6 months
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Peter Zelei (HU, - )
Variations for Botticelli's Birth of Venus
https://peterzelei.com/variations-for-botticellis-birth-of-venus-1
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Polykleitos (Greek, 480 BC-420 BC) Doryphoros (Spearbearer) of Polykleitos, ca.440 BC
Contrapposto (Italian pronunciation: [kontrapˈposto]) is an Italian term that means "counterpoise". It is used in the visual arts to describe a human figure standing with most of its weight on one foot, so that its shoulders and arms twist off-axis from the hips and legs in the axial plane.
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sculppp · 1 year
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French School, 19th Century 
Study of a seated male nude in contrapposto  
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Tip for dynamic poses in drawing: Contrapposto
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baheret · 1 year
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[image ID: a sketchbook page spread with two pencil sketches of two figures, one on each page. on the left page, a nude figure. it is posed like Hermes in the statue "Hermes and the infant Dionysus", but its face is not drawn. the top of the page is labeled with the word "contrapposto".
on the right page, a seated figure with its back against a wall, its body oriented rightwards. it wears a dark tank-top and light trousers. its legs are hidden behind a backpack. it looks away from the viewer such that only its chin can be seen from behind its curly hair, which is gathered-up near the base of the skull. both sketches are loose. /.End ID]
i'm travelling light.
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dpinodesigns · 9 months
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Isamar in Contrapposto
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parisfind · 2 years
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At the Louvre museum. What is contrapposto? Wikipedia says: Contrapposto is an Italian term that means "counterpoise". It is used in the visual arts to describe a human figure standing with most of its weight on one foot, so that its shoulders and arms twist off-axis from the hips and legs in the axial plane. The contrapposto definition is a relaxed and life-like standing pose. The body’s weight is rested on one leg. The figure does not stand stiff and upright but distributes the weight of the body at ease. The classical contrapposto pose requires artists to understand the various counterposed components of the figure. . . . #paris #contrapposto #parisjetaime #parislife #parisart #parismonamour #parismaville #parislove #pariscity #villedeparis #iloveparis #parisfind (at Musée du Louvre, Paris) https://www.instagram.com/p/CeQ6sieANXH/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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mafaldaknows · 2 years
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profpatricko · 1 month
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idliketobeatree · 4 months
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I was born to stand in contrapposto only (relaxed, artistically present, referencing the goddesses of beauty and love)
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eucanthos · 2 years
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Polycleitos   (Argos, 5th c BC)
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Diadumenos (diadem-bearer) / Youth Tying a Headband. The Athens example, copy of bronze original ca. 420 BC. Marble: 1.95 m H. National Archaeological Museum of Athens.
Winner of an athletic contest, lifting his arms to knot the diadem. The figure stands in contrapposto. “The thorax and pelvis of the Diadumenos tilt in opposite directions, setting up rhythmic contrasts in the torso that create an impression of organic vitality. The position of the feet poised between standing and walking give a sense of potential movement. This rigorously calculated pose, found in almost all works attributed to Polykleitos, became a standard formula used in Greco-Roman and, later, western European art."
Doryphoros (spear-bearer). Rendered somewhat above life-size: 2.12 m (6 feet 11 inches), the lost bronze original of the work would have been cast circa 440 BC, but it is today known only from later (mainly Roman period) marble copies.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Doryphoros.jpg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doryphoros
Polykleitos - Alchetron, The Free Social Encyclopedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diadumenos
Photographs of the first excavations at Delos island, where both sculptures were unearthed. From the 19th c. French archaeologists book “Delos 1873-1913″.https://greekreporter.com/2022/05/13/excavations-greek-island-delos/
Kararadaygum Photography: Diadumenos portrait (top)
https://kararadaygum.tumblr.com/post/672887937879408640
https://kararadaygum.tumblr.com/
thnx didoofcarthage & ancientprettythings
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freefloai · 8 months
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dj-george-costanza · 10 months
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Art Tip & Reference: Drawing a non-stiff, dynamic running pose
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Credit: ichieup_net (twitter)
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